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Tuesday, 1 June 2010

Bodacious!

Chelle from Time Out blog has very kindly bestowed this Bodacious Blogging Book reviewer award upon me and, I'm not going to lie, I am dee-lighted. The 'pass it on to 5 others' part reminds me of scary chain letters from the 80s (thanks a lot, Swedish pen-pal) but I think it's safe... anything called 'bodacious' can never be wrong.

If you are given this award you can accept it by leaving a comment on the post you were nominated on. Then copy and paste the post and add it to your own blog. Make a list of the last 5 books you read and pass the award on to 5 other bloggers (but not to the person who nominated you).

My last five books were: A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, Tusk Tusk by Polly Stenham (do plays count?), The Night Watch by Sarah Waters, Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple and The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield - Fisher.

My nominations are...

Lydia at The Literary Lollipop. Lydia reads faster than any other blogger out there and provides an interesting mix of Young Adult fiction, Classic literature, Short Stories, Croatian Literature and more. She is currently ploughing her way through Middlemarch so the rest of us don't have to.

Any blog which hops from L.A. Candy by Lauren Conrad to The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf to Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino is definitely worth keeping an eye on. Lila at BabyGotBooks gives everything attention and writes some great reviews.

Irish playwright Rosalind at The Vanishing Lake not only shows impeccable taste by naming her blog after a magical body of water, but she blogs about writing, reading, current affairs, dresses, all sorts. She also provides links to really interesting articles.

Number four is Desperate Reader. This Shetlander's blog is packed with gorgeous pictures and never fails to relax me when I am reading it. She also likes a dram and George Mackay Brown, like any sane person.

Claire from Kiss A Cloud's blog is also very lovely to look at. I really look forward to her beautiful, thought provoking posts. Her celebration of the film Bright Star was wonderful.

7 comments:

I wholeheartedly accept and very very much appreciate. Your blog is lovely, too and I love visiting you and love reading your comments on my blog.

I won't be able to post this on my blog (you'll know why tomorrow) so I'll list my last five books read here:Fragile Things by Neil GaimanThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiSodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust

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I pretty much like books and tea, and then pop music and beer, and then films/tv and sandwiches.
Nothing would please me more than an American cop procedural drama written by Vladimir Nabokov and Alan Warner, starring Lacey Turner (Stacey Slater )and with a soundtrack by Girls Aloud.
I would watch said drama (possibly entitled 'You Can't Escape Our Criminology') whilst nursing a strong mug of tea and eating a 'no regrets baguette' , safe in the knowledge that there were cans of Tennents waiting in the fridge.